1. From POSDCoRB to Corporate governance

2. Public administration in search of identity.
Administration as an activity as old as human civilization, a science of recent origin.
From efficiency and economy to social equity and relevance.

3. Contributions of F.W.Taylor, Henry Fayol, Herbert Simon, Chris Argiris.

4. New Public Administration.
Minnowbrook conferences
– 1. social relevance.
2.social equity.
3. Anti positivist.

5. 4. anti bureaucratic.
5. client oriented.
6. anti mechanistic .
7. rejects politics administration dichotomy

6. Minnowbrook II 1988
New Public Management approach.
1980 to 1990 – public sector management in advanced western democracies.
A normative conceptualization of public administration.

7. Features:
Revamp organization for organizational leadership.
Empowerment of citizens as customers and clients.
Autonomy for public sector managers, greater flexibility in personnel policy.
Performance measurement.

8. Disaggregation of bureaucracy : agencies to perform public functions.
Decentralized form of governance.
Entrepreneurial government.

9. Minnowbrook III (2008)
Global approach to governance.
Addressed the issues:
impact of market orientation.
challenge of remaining relevant in the globalised world.
Asian experiences of public administration